I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
ANNE LAMOTTI spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
ANNE LAMOTTIf we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
ANNE LAMOTTThe road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
ANNE LAMOTTI don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child.
ANNE LAMOTTSometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.
ANNE LAMOTTNo is a complete sentence.
ANNE LAMOTTChurches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
ANNE LAMOTTYour inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.
ANNE LAMOTTPrayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we’re invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
ANNE LAMOTTAnd she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
ANNE LAMOTTAgain and again I tell God I need help, and God says, ‘Well, isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.
ANNE LAMOTTA good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
ANNE LAMOTTPay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
ANNE LAMOTTGratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.
ANNE LAMOTTOne thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
ANNE LAMOTTLaughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT